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EMLY MEO0)m VOL. 3. JSEAJjpagT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1888. NO 6 HP IMF TP WIBJ BUSINESS LOCALS. "J PtnokP 'fnjuiie Cake tobacco. For f . - Sale at the Ht coliD i-fiice. '-aO;iew JJ.om tv-Wro. All grades for Sle at the TJecokh office, "pur Boom tobacco ;s tho best and t!ie cheapest in fcwn.Try a plu only G cents, at the Record Office. School children can buy the host and tli rhparx-.stirksr.nd nens in tn, at J the Record Office. Loveis of the Wod. v.Ill a'wnys find tl-.p best Smo1ciiir svnd Chwiu Tobacco, nt. the lowvst o vices, at the RtcOKD office Call at the IlEConp ott'.ce ana examine our stck of choice pons, inks, . and . writing papers; consisting of: Stylo- graphic pens; Esterbrook steel pens Caws black, violet, caimine, copying and s1y,lnriarbic ink Teiopes a nd writing papcrR. We are selling a bottle of the best ?i k made at 5 ce V s. The Twins' aie oji exhibition at Dr. . T. B. Delamar's Drug store. . Will guar antee satisfaction or the money will be refunded. Only 5 cents. ' ,The finest Copy Books ever brought jio this place ore for sale at the Record office. We have nine numbers, ail set c pies. To see them is to buy them. Repair your old stoves with Plastic stove paste. This is an article worth its weigh i in gold. For sale at the Rf.coud office. When you see the red cross mark or. your paper, it means that jou owe us and ve expect you to call at our office - and pay np. i Insure in the Old PeopVs Mutual Ben efit Society, the only reliable Insurance Company for old people in the Uuited States, and the cheapest, safest and best for all ages. Call on Dr. T. B. Delaraar, Agent for Carteret cecaitpv and be con vinced. Also Agut for the New i ork Mutual Reserve total business $190,000, iXX). Deposited with Insurance Depart--mcnts 250.000 ; Ve will give an elegant, illustrated Christmas paper free, to every school child whit and colored, who buys a N C copy book, with set copies from. us. Price o- copy book 10 cents. We hav. ;ill the-trades. Three numbers for begien tiers, three numbers for advanced boys, jM d;5me numbers for advanced girls. CoiiT at once and secure theltst copy jb-x.k for the price, .vnd th, Christmas pnjxjr fi led ith pictures free. (hi: A4vert";se;s. Din-' Stores. D J. B. Davis, Ann Stiieet. T. B. Delaraar, Front Street. Allen Davis, N. Side Front Street. Dry Goods and Groceries. Lv J- Mo'H-e & Bro. Front Street Henry Engleberg, Front Street Undertaker. . V. Roberson. Front Street. 13 1 J !B. jDaxris, DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY. Ann Street, 2nd door from Turner. 0- 0 0 Ilawke's Eye Glasses and Spectacles. Bave your eyes by buying a pair. Coltn ed glasses, for weak and sore eyes. Dr. Davis is ole agent for these glasses, they pannot bo bought elsewhere in this cour$ 1 ; Tho largest and cheapest assortment of Patent Medicines of all kinds always in stock. Dr. Jvilmers, Cough and Consumption Cure, "jn Brad fields Female Regulator. B. B. B. b. S. '. Warners Safe Kidney Cure Ae llr r.? Simmons Regulator. Bulls Cough Mixtnre. Chill Remedies, Select your medcines from a large stock and at living prices. Remember the place, DR. J. B. DAVIS' DRUG STORE. Akn Street,' 2nd door from Ttjknee. THE RECORD. G. W. CHARL0TT K EDITOR. tW SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year, $1.50 Six Months, 75 Four , '..........50 Two " ..25 Cash in Advance. Entered at tho Post Office at Beaufort, N. C, as second class matter. tW The Editor of this paper is not re sponsible for the views of correspondents. t3? ir tnere is an a mark on your paper, it meais, that your subscription has expired, please renew t once. t- The Record is the official paper of the 9th. Senatorial District, composed of the counties of Onslow. Carteret and Jones. d? The Postmasters iq Jthe counties of Onslow, Carteret and Jones, are special agents of the Record, and wiil receive and receipt for subscriptions to this paper. 7 X O O A XS Dull Dull Dull. Next Tuesday is St. Valentines day. . Green peas are up ai0 growing finely in this vicinity. ' Our farmei-s should raise more bread stuffs and less cotton. 1 Ho? and hominy ought to be the cry of the farmers during 18S3. Beaufort makes a lively bid for the State Guard encampment. Tvo vessels arrived week from Eliza beth City, loaded with briqk.. The brick will be used hi the construction of stores on theylnirnt district. ' i Madam, Rumor says; that a marriage will shortly take place in our town. Guess who the parties are. Tber is a bill before Congress to issue fractional cuiency in denominations of from 5 to 50 cents. Our f armors should pl.mt considerable early irnck, it will give th m money at a tme wben'they most Mfc-efd it- The corner stone of the Teachers Assem bly building wiil be laid by tha Masons on Ap:il 2nd. ;A hfga crowd will attend Hon. T. J. Ja'rvi it is stated wi!l re turn home from Brazil in June next, lie will e needed here, "lie isa power iu the land."' The old Atlantic Hotil bite, or the pub lic square, would make .a fine camp ground for the Stele Guard encampment this summer. Dr. W. A. Skidmore and family of Long Island N. Y., are spending the win ter in Beaufort. They are guests of the Davis House. The doctor is fond of rod and guu, and is a very clever gentleman. We wish, ne could be induced to locate among us. ) The schooner Adventure, Capt. White hur.st, struck on the" bar at Shallotte In let. N. C, a few days since, and will be a total loss. -'The schooner was from Charleston bound to Wilmicgtou, N. C. and was loaded with phospate. Tie crew with all their effects were saved. The law firm of' Guion & Pelietier of NewBeme, N. C, was dissolved by mutual consent on February 1st. See law card of Mr. P. U. Pelietier in an other column. Mr. Pelietier will be in 'Beaufort pri Friday the-l7th instant and will be pleased to see his friends profes sionally. ' The ladies will give a "Leap Year" dance at the Ocean View Hotel. Monday night February, 13th, 1883. The gentle men are cordially invited to attend Mamie Cramer. 1 Letti 6'Dil.I. Com. Tee nie Pool. 5 Mr. W. F. Dili purchased the market house from the town after the late fire and' moved it on. his lot on the burned district. The building has-been remodel ed and presents a neat appearance. Mr. DiU is first on the, ground with a new building to cove up the unsighty spot on the corner, made bare by tho firery element. - - ' . A ward to those who owe us. It is very unpleasant for us to be constantly dunning those who are iudebted to us. If our patrons do not take more interest in their home paper, 'we will suspend it and look for a better field in which to publish a newspaper. TTe are ashamed to say it, but the little sheet we publish ed, the Weekly Atlantic,' paid us better than the Record ha3 done. The reason was, tjiat the merchants, of Morehead City felt an interest in it. ! The Atlantic Hotel Syndicate met in Raleigh a f$w days ago and -decided to make iextensiva additions to tlie Hotel j The accomodations are to be1 doubled I The property is iu the right hands at lastJ Our sister town of Morehead ' is in luckj when such men as Julian S. Carr take hold and invests money there. The iuiure 01 jioreueau is upwaru ana on ward. Poor old. Beaufort is as "dead a door nail." " M ' as , The steamer Margie was burned to the waters edge at her dock in Bayboro this weak.'1 Loss a.OJO l&sured for $1030. ': The officei-s of the. .State Ouard met at Raleigh on tho 4th iust. While they are casting about for a location for the next State ensampment,-it would ba well fjr. them to visit Beaufort and Morehead pity. Beaufort would delight in en.er taiuing the eoldier boys, and would ar range to give them free transportation between Morehead City and Beaufort, Let our people go to work at once to se cure the encampment it would leave sev eral thousand dollars in our community. On last Thuisday evening, about 5 o'clock, the awful cry f fire 'ire fire, was again heard in onr town. Ouf citi zens4urned out as one man. The fire was found to be on the loof of the kitch en attached to the residence of Mrs Jane jowenberg oh Aim,ltreet. .Thdioof cf the kitchen was badly damaged, Jhd the supper .of the family, which was in pre paration, was delayed. This was the only damage. Had this fire gotten under way, the damage, would have been as great as it was at the fire last month. A member of the Record family re turned home about two weeks ago from from an enjoyable trip to Washington, N. C, where she has been v:siting rela tives. To hear her talk of the good people of that town, ouo would be com pelled to think, (as she does) that Wash ington is the "garden spot of the earth'' and that her ctizens aie the creme de la creme of the universe. She returns home thoroughly Washingtonized. Washing- ten was always noted for its charming society, its cultuied men and women, its elegant hospitality and its--pretty girls. We know whereof wo speak, we have been there. "O woman! in onr hours of ease, Uncertain,, coy and hard to please, And variable as the ..shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wirng the brow A ministering anel thou!" Last Thursday evening Misses Fainie and Lina Davis two ministering angels called upon us, and presented us with a nice treat of ice cream and cake. Mrs. J. L. Manneys Sunday School class, gave a festival at the Ocean View Hotel on the above evening, and knowing that the editor was sick, sent us their symapthies in this substantial manner. . We feel under many obligations to this lovely christian lady, and the sweet little misses that compose her Sunday School class, for this token of sympathy and friend ship. Such kind remembrances, v.'hen the body is racked with pain, have a ten dency to aikviate and lessen our suflei in'. Married At the Presbyterian chu-ch iu Henaeison, N. C,, on Thursday even ing February 2d, :838., by the Rev. Alexander Sprunt, Mr. Thad R. Man ning, editor of the Henderson Gold Leaf, to Mrs. Fannie L. Porter. The Record sends hearty congratulations. The fol lowing characteristic notices appeared in the Gold Leafthe day of Bro. Manning's marriage: "As one of the parties inter ested, the Gold Leaf extends a cordial iu yitation to its friends to be present at the Presbyterian church to witness the marriage ceremony to take place at nine o'clock thie evening." The editor of tbel j?old Leaf does not like to make apolo gies, but if the paper-this week is below (;he standard either in quantity or quality of reading matier, a generous public will know to what cause to attribute all short joinings when it is learned that a marri age is to take place at the Prcsbj'terian Church at nine o'clock this evening at Which time and place he is to fill an im portant ensrajjement. WASHINGTON LETTER. (From our Regular Correspondent.) Washington D. C, Feb., 3d, 1888. Among the little things and big things that have been done in Congress this week I will mention that the Senate, un animously w:thuut de ate, voted to substitute the 30th of April for the 4th of March as Inauguration day. Thy also voted that the term of office of the Presi dent and of tho Fiftieth Congress shall continue until the 30h day of April, 1889. at noon; .'that the Senators, .whose existing term would expire onfhe 4th of March 1839 (and thereafter,) shall contin ue in office until the 30th of April suc ceeding such expiration, and that the 30th of April shall thereafter be substituted for the 4th of March as the commence ment and termination ot the official term of the President, Vice President, Senators and Representatives in Congress. In the House end of the capital there is on the calendar another Constitutional amendment awaiting a vote. It fixes the day fir the meeting pf Congress on the first Monday in January, and the time of fiual aajoumment at noon on the 31st of December. This, you see would prac tically make a continuous session for the two years' term, interrupted by only such recesses as both Houses should agree to. Prohibition bills memorials and peti tions continue to pour in upon both Hou siis.' One of the latest and strongest is tile result of the yearly meeting of the So ciety of Friends in Baltimore, which shows the Friends do not believe in half way measure's. The petition calls for a constitutional ameudment prohibiting the pianufacture, exportation, importation, tr Asportation and sale of liqujrs in the United States. otiSous continue to be presented, also, in favor of the proposed Constitutional Centennial celebration to bo held iu this city, i To give you and, idea of the demand made by ..constituents and pther callers upon the time of our lawmakers, which should be spent,during tho daily session at least, in attention to public business, will mention that the doorkeepers at tho vai iops! entrances tothe floor of the House kept tally on last I oursday of the card sent in t- members during the day. Ow ing to the bad weather there happened, to be fewer people at jthe capttol that day than usual, yet 1,700 cards were sent ia This did not-.include those sent in from the ladies vece'btiou . room, which would have numbered several hundred more. There was a little jeontest in the Senate over the one cent p-jstage bill. In present ing thd Senatorial Post-r-Office Commit tee s adverse report upon the dumty 'measure,' Chairman; Sawyer stated that the Post Office Department was not self- supporting yet, and therefore it was not time to attempt any further reduction on letter (postage. Senators Beck, Hoar fiat aua otners eaeu oelievea 111 penny postage. iney argued that tne people wauted and demauded better and cheap er mail service, that they had never asked that the Post Ufilce Department shouldj be elf sustaining nor .had. they ever complaiued of extravagance in that branch of the Goverment OUR. ONSLOW tOLTY LETTER. J From our egular Correspondent. Swausboio; N. U Feb. 3rd, 1883. i i Our people are well aid our town 'is still booming. Capt. M. Bloqdgood4 of schooner Etta and Capt. Joe Uloodgo&i of schooner Packed in port now, schooner Gold Leaf has bfi) 011 the ways for some time Undergoif; thorough repairs, she will be ready for sa soon. Our raihoad project was carried by 117 votes iu tho county, guess wc will have a railroad now but when ! who can tell. There has bern moru Candy stews, Social parties, thimble selling and kissing frolics iu our town for the last two months than ever before, and among tho.4e who don't love sinful was.j The linn oi J. J Ward & Co., nave uissoivea. Jar. vwiru n;ts inovea in the corner .toVe opposite tho brick store. and will bo y-la.l to see hit; friends and tho' public ueiie rally. Mr. Henry Morton, is his salesman.' Joe sas he will let the people in Carteret county ku-nv what he is dting soon in the columns ol the Re cokd. Capt. Terry's steamboat the Fan- nic B. makes semi-weekly -trips to More head City carrying about, 33,000 feet of lumber at a timeJ Mr.R. "O. McLean from our place is pilot on the -teamer, Mr U. M. Co! Sias and .Miss Agnes Ilug gins d'aughler of Mr. A C. Iliiggins, and .Mr. jU.Bu4i of jWUtnin-ton N. C.anft Miss P. Lcsesene caughter of the late Dr. Jjesesenc, were marrii-d at the residence of Mij A. C. liu.'gjns in thatownof Jack sonsville last Wcdne.-day evenii.g. 3Ir. G. S I Ward is teaching school in Carter et county. Mr. Wj. E. Mattocks is teach ing at Piney Groye and Mr. C. B. Frazelle is teaching at Hurst on Brown Sound, this county. Our town isa wet town now bu'. we hive no rights or drunkeness with us and may it continue so is the wish of every good citizenjas well as your humr ble servant. ! .1 W. The advantages of a reliable, safe and efficacious Family jMediciue, is incalcula ble, and when such is found, the blessing is thus happily eKpresscd. i : 1 EXCLAIMED, "EUREKA. I have been usiijig Sim.nons Liver Reg ulator myself some five years or more, aud my family also, and can testify from ex perience to its virtues. I never recom mend a medicine Unless I know it to be good. In a ministry of twenty five-yeais I have often felt the need of such a medi cine and when I found ii, I exclaimed, 'Eareka." Rev. J. P. Harper, proprie tor of; the "Chi istian Visitor," Stnithfield. N. c. S i; WHEN TO STOP ADVERTISING. When every man has become so thor oughly a creature of, habit that Le will certainly buy this year, where he bought last year. t .. ,. r When youjgei' and fresher and spunk ier concerns in your line cease starting up and using the newspapers in telling the people how much better they can do for them than you canl When nobody else thinks it pays to advertise." i When populition; ceases to multiply, and the generations that crowd on after yoa and never heard of yoii stop coming. When you have convinced everybody whose life will tcuch yours that you have better goods and lower prices than they can ever get outside of your store. When you perceive it to be the rule that the meu who Inever do and never did advertise are out stripping their neighbors in the same line of business When men stop making foitunes right in your very sight, solely through the direct use of this mighty agent. When you can forget the wo.rds of the shrewdest and most successful business men concerning the main cause of their prosperity. I When you would rather have your own way and fail than take advice, and win. When you want to go out of basiries with a stock on hand, . ' When you want to get rid of the trou ble of .waitin $ on customei s. Ex.' " , -WILLIAM, DA VIS, OF OARXERET' COUNTY. AND HIS DESCENDANTS. BY JNO. D. DAVIS. William Davis came to this county from Wales about 1700. Ho was evi dently d, farmer and pursued th it calling through life. ! He married Mary Wicker, the daughter of Joseph Wicker, who was a very prominent man duriag the early history of the county. : He was' a mem ber of the first County Court, aud its Clerk in 172o and 26 and a member of the Legislature iu 1733. , He gave Mary an -Island in Core Sound, for life, remainder to her son Joseph. This Island eince that time has. been called Davis' Island, It is how owned by Mr. Henry Parsons of New York. William Davis was a veryMevout mem ber of the Church of iSnghthd and was for many years one of the five ' Lay Readers" in this county for which ser- vice lie was paid 8, per auumn. He was a man of considerable wealth for his time . He owned hundreds of acres of land, many nejoes, horses; catie and sheep. His life must have been spent in peace and happiness. Davis' Island, his home, was at that time one of the most de&i- ble and beautiful places in the County, containing about three hundred aiid fifty acre's, well timbered with live oak and cedar and a fertile soil. Jarratts Bay, just on tte vVest, supplied his table with the finest oysters to be found, anywhere. Davis' Shore, to the North East, which he owned and on which lje had a farm . A - . . ' . . . separated irom tne island by a narrow and shallow creek, furnished his hirses, cattle and sheep with a good pasture, and Core Sound,on the East and -South, teem ing m winter with wild ducks and geese, and iu Spring, Summer and Autumn with all the varieties of fish, tor with which our waters have always "beyj. noted, and his farms well tilled as they must have been by his sons and beg roes, furnished in abundance all the corn, wheat, pota toes ai:d vegetables that he and his large family needed and to spare. We imagine, as we run our minds eye back to his time, that we can see, on some beautiful Sabbath morning, his friends and neighbors from Smyrna and Straits, with th ir famil'ifS, rowing across the bay iu their canoes, to attend Divine services at the hospitable home of our noble ancestor. At the "lauding" ; they are met by the family, and from thence conducted to the shade of the old oak trees in the yard, where they reverently istened to the solemn, yet . beautijrui" ser vice of the Episcopal Church, after ser vice they gather, one and all around his .untiful table, theie to partake of the many good things prepared for them He died in 1756,' leaving surviving him, ns wire, Mary, eight sons and one daughter. His wife is named as execu- rix and his sons Nathan and Joseph ex ecutors of his will, Joseph, only, quali fied. To show that he was orLhodox in his faith, we copy from his will, as follows; "Fist and principal of all, I give and eccommend my soul into tho hands of Almighty God that gave it, . hoping through the merits, death, and passion of my blessed Saviour, to have fulLand free pardon of all my sins, which I have com mitted in this wicked world." His children were named Nathan, oseph, Wicker, Caleb, William, Solomon White, Isaac, Benjamin and Abigail. His so-'s were strong" and athletic men, not one ot them below six lVet and it is said, they could all run and jump over he beam over the main gate leading to the Mansion house " This is tradition but it comes to us through such a chan nel that we believe it is true. Caleb died in 1766, and William in 774, intesta.jp. Tey were both married but after long search wo have earned but little about their children. From all the information we have been able to gather, we think .saae and Wicker left the County after the Revolu tionary war, tawing . tneir tamiiies mtn hem, but iu what part of the Country they settled we do not know. Joseph who owned the Island, after the death of his mother,- died in 1792. lis wife was named; Sarah. They had three sons. Thorjias,:to .whom he gave the Island, William, an Joseph. He gave Joseph nothing but the large family Bible. He had several.' daughters, but mentions only one of them by name, Rhody. '. - - - Solomon White, died in 1791 leaving lis widow, Jean, and six sous, Nathan Logan, Samuel, jnocn, Aniuony, auu Allen and five daughters, Mary, Rebecca. Tamer, C larky and Betsy. Samuel and Logan were executors to his will. Nathan died in 1803, leaving four sous, saiah, Freeman, James and Anthony, and three daughters; Byer, Mollie and Abigail. He was a member of the coun ty court from 1756 to 1760, was re-appointed by the governor in 1760, but de clined to qualify. Benjamin died in 1814. (he wasthe youngest child), leaving four sons, Archi bald, Wbittington, John i Stausil and Thomas Ciefford, and 6even daughters ; Mary, Abigail, Clarrsa, Abia, Hettie, Kesiah and Lottie. , W uittinerton was a member of tha flouso of Commons iu 816 and State Senator from 1821 to 826. ,. - . "'-'v". ' . Joseph Wicker, son of Joseph, pur chased a tract of land, of the Stantrons; on Newport River, where he settled and raised a large family. His children were named, James, Benjamin, and Jacob, wl o died before his father, Jesse, Joseph. " TV.f and Enoch, Sarah, Abigail, Anna! Esther and Rhody. His wife was nanned Sus anna, About the beginning of the present century the ' Davises had multiplied so fast that there was hardly any sc ;tiiou of the eounty where they did not dw ell, and in some sections there were but few of anyi other name ' J i ' I XXiose living in jiho vicinity of Beaufort had intermarried with the Bordeosj Stan tons, Maces and other Quakers jind &ad become Quakers themselves, while!" most of those living in the eastern parjt f tho county became Baptists. There was no longer an" Episcopal phurcUin this county, it died with-the' war of the Revolution. Most of its minis ters were either openly or secretly . tories huu uuiurauy so locvuicy iovea in Moth er Country and berdaws which taxed the people to support the church j.nid pay the preachers, and when the war closed Jhey left the county. Their flocks Were scattered aud joined oihe-r ! communions. About the year 1790 or 93 the fjever, to "Go West," had taken a strong nold on our people, ai d from thai time till about 1830 many of our citizens sold their prop erty and left the county, emigrating to Alabama, Mississipi, Kentucky (jio and other States, and other sections Ipf our State. It is estimated that at least one half of the Davises left here during that period. . ; William and his descendants certainly believed in obeying tho first command ment, "Be fruitful, and multiply xmd rc- ; plenish tho earth," and we do not doubt. that ho has blood , representatives, by Mary Wicker, in every State and Tern tory of the Union. j. Tlie Davises have always been noted for unselfish hospitality, ready and will ing to entertain strangers, as well as friends. Contented and happy, whether with much or little of this worlds Oods. beidom brought before the courts for violating the law, and never (so far as our records inform us),, on any! grave charge, or .accusation. j - JNoneot them have ever attained to much wealth, . always averse to hard work, but noed for their talking quali- hcations. ' We do not think our ancos'or, William, ever had a aescendant who was ! not "full graduate" in that department. ' One of them waskuown as whispering Jim (son of Nathan) and it is said that he could be heard, at least, a mile on a calm evening in an ordinary conversation The kind hearted, generous,; and popular ex Solicitor of the old third now Gth Ju dioial district of this State, is a descend- ant of William, which v ill iu part, at least j 'account for his wonderful lunjr cowers. It seems that their greatest sin, with some exceptions of course, is and was their total aversion to manual labor. i Whilo the whig party, lived they were, with very few exceptions, its ardent sup porf ers, and bitterly opposed secession in 1861. Captain Benjamin Leebrafttho se cession Candidate for a saat in the Con stitutional Convention of that year, "re ceived but one single Davis vote. But when the supremo moment arrived, when the naked proposition was forced upon them, "will you take up arms in defence of your homes and native State? pr will you sit supinely by and see them and her invaded by a foreign foe? they did not hesitate to decide, and wc think it can be truthfully said that the Davises furnished theirTull quote of men to the Southen cause. i .. They in common, with most all the people of the south, believed that their their first allegieuce was duo to their State and when sheseecmled they follow ed her. do e of them was captured, ru- n:ng the Blockade, in June 1803, and wai taken to Port Royal, S. C. The Commander of the Federal fleet, on burning that ho was well acquainted with .Charleston bar and liUrbor, knew where the torpedoes and other obstructions had been placed ordered him to be taken to the flag ship and after a short interview offered him a large sum of money to take the "fleet, or the best of the ships', past -Fort Sumter, This proposition was declined. ! Tlie Commander then asked j him to name his price, when het., .replied Sir there is not enough money in the United States Treasury to indu.ee me to become a traitor to my country. Two years later he was released from a Federal prison. A part of the traditional history of the family is, that Joseph Wicker or his heirs would inherit a large fortune in England and, as he had ho sodf, it was necessary to perpetuate his name, in the Davis fam ily so they might the better prove, when necessary, that they were the legal and rightful heirs to his fortune, j Whether he gave such instructions or not, we do not know ! but it is certain that his name was kept in the family for over one hun dred years. ' Mary named her first sou Joseph and another Wicker, Afterwards the names were joined and tho name JoJeph Wicker Davis was in some branch of the family for many generations ; but the fortune of of their ancestor ia Enslaad Iha3 never come to light. I As an item of interest to the general public we will state that John Smith wa living at time of Williams death and , was clerk of the court when his will was ad mitted to probate; . i Beaufort N. C.K January 188$, I OFFICE STORE. 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